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fix(v2): a comment that quoted */ ended early and dropped light --v2-ink-2 - #3221

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Found while proving the v2.css dead-selector delete (Sharpen TASK-758): postcss refused v2.css at line 179, and the reason is a real bug in production CSS.

The bug

The light Signal set's comment said "the old --v2-radius-*/--v2-shadow-* values above stay…". CSS comments don't nest, so the */ inside that glob closed the comment there. The browser read the comment's leftover text as a declaration it couldn't parse, and threw it away up to the next ;. That ; was the end of --v2-ink-2: #1d2433;, so the token went with it.

Measured in headless Chromium against main's v2.css: light --v2-ink-2 computes to "". --v2-fill-a, the next token, computes fine (#333c4e). The dark sets are unaffected.

So in light mode, these lost the artboard's #1d2433 and inherited their parent's colour instead:

  • V2AgentMemory.css: memory nav items and journal days
  • primitives.css: list-row values and tile names
  • V2SettingsPage.css: settings disclosure labels
  • V2AgentBYO.css: the BYO live line
  • V2PodBoard.css: the board focus strip

One more rule in v2.css reads var(--v2-ink-2, var(--v2-text-primary)) and took its fallback.

The fix

Reword the comment ("the old --v2-radius and --v2-shadow values"). After the fix, Chromium computes light --v2-ink-2 as #1d2433.

This is a visible change, in light mode only: the eight rules above take #1d2433, the colour the artboard specifies.

Why the tests didn't catch it

signalTokens.test.ts pins every token by regex on the raw text, which still read --v2-ink-2: #1d2433;. Two new tests read comments the way CSS does (non-nesting strip):

  • no comment in v2.css ends early: no */ survives the strip.
  • each Signal token opens its own declaration in every set: across the light, dark and prefers-color-scheme sets, each token must follow a ; or { once comments are stripped.

Reverse check: on main's v2.css both tests are red. The second names exactly light --v2-ink-2. With the fix, both are green (signalTokens 11/11; the ten suites that read v2.css, 393/393). Every other .css file under frontend/src and frontend/design-system was scanned the same way, and none has the bug.

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One round, Tier 1. A fresh reviewer independently confirmed four things: the error-recovery reading, that the fix is complete, that both tests are red on main and green on the branch, and the visible effect. It found the eighth consumer, the fallback rule, which this description and the commit message now include. Verdict: PASS.

After deploy

One computed-style read on prod in light mode: getComputedStyle(.v2-root).getPropertyValue('--v2-ink-2') === '#1d2433'.

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HEAD: 87d4ac6 — GATE: PASS

One review round (D218), Tier 1, by a fresh subagent with no prior context.

  • Bug confirmed under CSS comment and error-recovery rules: only the light --v2-ink-2 declaration is lost, and dark is intact.
  • Fix complete: no stray */ survives a CSS-style comment strip in any .css file under frontend/src or frontend/design-system.
  • Guard: both new tests are red on main's v2.css (one names light --v2-ink-2) and green on the branch.
  • Visible effect is light mode only: seven rules plus one fallback rule take #1d2433.
  • The fallback consumer, which the first draft missed, is now in the commit message and the PR body.

GATE: PASS

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The change updates a comment about legacy Signal tokens and adds tests for CSS comment integrity and artboard token declarations in light, dark-selector, and prefers-color-scheme sets.

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frontend/src/v2/v2.css, frontend/src/v2/__tests__/signalTokens.test.ts
The comment now names --v2-radius and --v2-shadow as legacy values. Tests check that CSS comments do not end early and that artboard tokens begin declarations in the light, dark-selector, and prefers-color-scheme sets.

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  • Team-Commonly/commonly#3144: This PR updates the D223 Signal token comment and adds tests for the token declarations introduced in that PR.
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Minor follow-up Add a positive control for the negative scan.

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Add a positive control for the negative scan.

This assertion also passes if the scan removes the entire input. Pass a known stray */ through the same scan and assert that it remains detectable.

As per path instructions: “For negative scan results, verify the instrument ran and confirm the scope it covered.”

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The light Signal set's comment read "the old --v2-radius-*/--v2-shadow-* values".
CSS comments don't nest, so the `*/` in that glob ended the comment there, and
the browser threw away the rest of the comment's text up to the next `;`, which
was the end of `--v2-ink-2: #1d2433;`. Chromium computed light --v2-ink-2 as
empty, so the seven rules that read it (memory nav items, memory journal days,
settings disclosure labels, list-row values, tile names, the BYO live line,
the board focus strip) inherited their parent's colour instead of the
artboard's #1d2433. An eighth rule, v2.css's own
`var(--v2-ink-2, var(--v2-text-primary))`, took its fallback. Dark was
unaffected.

The token pins read the raw text, which still said #1d2433, so they passed. Two
new tests read comments the way CSS does: no `*/` may survive stripping, and
every Signal token must open its own declaration in all three sets.

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On CodeRabbit's body-only point at 87d4ac6 (signalTokens.test.ts:109-110, a positive control for the negative */ scan): it's right. A scan that dropped its whole input would also pass that assertion. The fix is two lines: the scan has to keep a stray */ it's handed, and it has to keep --v2-ink-2: from v2.css. This PR was already in the merge queue when I got to it, and the point is Minor, so the control will land with #3222, which reworks the same v2.css tests.

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the comment fix (#3221), from docs/design/v2css-surface-map/unreferenced.md.
A selector goes when one of its classes is named nowhere in non-test source
and no dynamic class build can produce it.

Chromium's CSSOM of v2.css before and after differs by exactly the 364
listed selectors: none added, none changed, none removed off the list.
Tests that pinned a deleted rule drop that pin, and the type-floor
allowlist drops the 23 entries whose rules are gone.

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